From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inserting n instances (multiple) of the same character
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:05:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763bh7mdf.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f08da985-35b9-456c-8c51-48c88c3a4982@g1g2000vbr.googlegroups.com
On 2009-09-17 05:57 (-0700), Nordlöw wrote:
> Is there a specific way to insert n number of characters, in my case
> space?
Yes, use a numeric prefix argument: C-u <n> <character>
So, if n is 10 and character is "a" you could type:
C-u 10 a
M-1 0 a
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 12:57 Inserting n instances (multiple) of the same character Nordlöw
2009-09-17 13:04 ` Joost Kremers
2009-09-18 8:17 ` Nordlöw
2009-09-17 13:05 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2009-09-17 13:05 ` Benjamin Andresen
2009-10-12 3:43 ` David Combs
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